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Chris Cracknell - Keyboards / Vocals
Chris Cracknell is known to most friends offline as "Crackers" and most friends online as "Ghastly". He has been playing keyboards since the 70s and has been a professional accordionist since the early 1990s. His work experience includes theatre performance, jobber work, and session work for a wide number of musical acts and has recorded everywhere from old fur vaults to Grant Avenue Studio. As an accomplished accordionist, particularily adept at Cajun and Zydeco music, Crackers is in demand as a session musician. Apart from that he also works as a freelance audio engineer and worked as a soundtrack composer for various A/V projects in the early 90s.
Crackers enjoys performing regularily with his good friend and long time music partner Steve Didemus. The two perform an entertaining mix of original and standard folk and blues numbers with Crackers playing primarily accordion. In the mid 1980s Crackers was keyboardist for the Toronto based punk band Only You Can Prevent Insanity. Having moved from Toronto to his current home in Hamilton, Crackers ended up joining the punk band I Love My Shih'Tzu in the late 1990s where he met Pete and Monica. Although the band ended up disolving shortly after recording their second and unreleased album, Crackers, Pete, and Monica enjoyed playing together so much that they went on to form Science Ninja Big Ten, inviting Dave to come play with them on drums. As Ghastly, he is famous for his adult humour webcomic Ghastly's Ghastly Comic (NSFW) a satirical look at the lighter side of Japanese hentai anime and manga cliches. Ghastly's comic draws over 100,000 readers and makes him a popular guest at anime and comics conventions. As well he does an experimental comic called Apophenia 357 which is part of his Tentacled Epics webpublishing empire. Ghastly does all the artwork for the band's posters and CDs and designs the website. His instrument rig for Science Ninja Big Ten consists of a vintage Hohner Pianet-T electric piano run through a Digitech RP-100 digital guitar effects processor, and a MIDI synthesizer cobbled together from an old PC and sound card which is controlled by the pride and joy of his musical instrument collection a Casio AZ-1 strap-on midi controller that once belonged to, and is autographed by Thomas Dolby. In his spare time he enjoys searching thift stores for old bits of music gear and instruments as well as old Atari 2600 video game cartridges. He can often be found tinkering away with odd bits of electronics and computer gear, creating and modifying electronic musical instruments.

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